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In the dissected specimen two or three fine tubule-like filaments 

 were seen to pass from the posterior ends of the oviducts to 

 the anterior extremities of the corresponding epididym.es ; these 

 were best marked on the left-hand side (see text-fig. 1). These 

 filaments were carefully examined in the sections. The epi- 

 thelial lining of the oviduct was found to end posteriorly in 

 a cul-de-sac, as did that of the epididymis anteriorly. The 

 "filaments" in section appeared as actual tubular passages 

 devoid of any epithelial lining and running in the substance of 

 the broad ligament. They commenced at the extreme anterior 

 tip of the epididymis, and while two of them ended blindly, the 

 third ran up as far as the posterior extremity of the oviduct, its 

 lumen being continuous with the spaces in the mesentery in 

 which were contained the glandular portion of the oviduct. 



Text-figure 3. 



kid. 



Lacerta viridis, hermaphrodite animal : secti on through kidney. 



hid. ; kidney tissue. 



foil. ep. ; follicular epithelium. 



thec.foll. ; theca folliculi. 



The morphological interpretation of these spaces would seem 

 a problem of some difficulty. Being devoid of epithelial lining 

 and making no connection with the lumen of the epididymis, one 

 would hardly seem justified in regarding them as rete tubules 

 proper, while the close relationship of one of them with the 

 oviduct also seems anomalous, on this view. 



The condition which Howes (5) describes in one of his 

 specimens seems of some interest in this connection. "In one 

 instance," he says, "I discovered an interesting modification of 

 the condition recorded by Leydig. There was buried up in the 



